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Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family
- PG-13 , 1h 46m
- Comedy, Drama
- Directed By: Tyler Perry
- In Theaters: Apr 22, 2011
- Streaming: Dec 19, 2015
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Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
Sep 15, 2020
A return to Perry's early cinematic stylings.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0
Kiko Martinez
San Antonio Current
Jan 29, 2018
Is so obnoxious, annoying, unfunny, and downright hateful, that watching lunatics freaking out on stage during a paternity episode of Maury Povich would be better received.
Full Review | Original Score: D-
Dustin Putman
TheFilmFile.com
Dec 5, 2013
"Madea's Big Happy Family" is a facetious title; there's not a happy one in the bunch. Eventually, neither is the viewer.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com
Apr 7, 2012
The odd thing about Tyler Perry is that just when you think he may be turning a corner and evolving, he goes into retrograde.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
Feb 29, 2012
Perry's performance of Madea [feels] flatter and more strained than he ever has in the role.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/10
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Reader
Apr 29, 2011
Like most of Perry's movies, this one oscillates wildly and shamelessly between raunch and pathos, leaving plenty of room for the performers to work. The lively ensemble includes a scene-stealing Cassi Davis as pothead Aunt Bam.
Full Review
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
Apr 29, 2011
Deathbed scenes and colonoscopy humor, Bible quotations and Maury Povich "Who Is the Real Baby Daddy" episodes: All cohabit with equal relevance in the world of Tyler Perry.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
Apr 29, 2011
... Tyler Perry goes to the Madea well once too often and comes up dry.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies
Apr 29, 2011
Comedy is comedy, and "terminal illness" is "terminal illness" and the two really shouldn't meet. What you end up with is a movie that's literally as funny as cancer.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Grae Drake
Movies.com
Apr 29, 2011
Madea's Big Happy Family is probably Perry's best film to date.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Dave White
Movies.com
Apr 29, 2011
I've been waiting patiently for Perry to make a Madea film that suits my tastes and I think this is the one.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5
Chris Hewitt
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Apr 29, 2011
This "Madea" feels like the best "Madea" yet.
Original Score: 2.5/4
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Apr 28, 2011
A typical Perrython of Perryisms aimed at the most Perrynacious viewer. This means steaming melodrama, low comedy and a dash of Jesus.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5
Tom Meek
Boston Phoenix
Apr 28, 2011
It's that time of year again, when the daffodils spring up and Tyler Perry puts on a dress and becomes Madea.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com
Apr 27, 2011
One part funny and one part dramatic and sometimes these two parts clash instead of compliment.
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com
Apr 27, 2011
The problem with the last couple movies to feature Madea, in fact, has been that they haven't featured Madea enough.
Full Review | Original Score: C+
A.A. Dowd
Time Out
Apr 27, 2011
Epitomizing the shrill franchise's schizophrenic tonal shifts, Madea metes out Christian life lessons with one hand -- and righteously bitch-slaps with the other.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
Bruce DeMara
Toronto Star
Apr 27, 2011
The title is meant to be ironic. Too bad irony is in such short supply in Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family. Sadly, subtlety is also missing.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
Apr 25, 2011
If Perry gets on your wavelength, you can forgive him too. He's only the host at a home-cooked banquet of wild emotions.
Full Review
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
Apr 25, 2011
"Madea's Big Happy Family'' nonsensically knots the spiritual and the salacious, asking gossipy questions then giving pulpit answers so that the movie is wonderfully, woefully absurd.